Category Archives: Federal Opinion

While the Abbott Government’s decision to remove the so-called “gold card” travel entitlements for former MP’s has been cheered by the great unwashed, the comments made by WA’s Health Minister Hon Dr Kim Hames during Parliamentary Estimates recently highlight precisely why reducing former politician’s perks is a foolish and short-sighted move. In answering a question about

Just a quick note to recognize the passing of legendary Victorian columnist and journalist Keith Dunstan OAM. The Good Oil honours him for his enormous contribution to writing but perhaps more so for being the catalyst behind the original AFL (http://antifootballleague.org/) :-). Vale good sir.

We received this anonymous (and funny) message yesterday: Hi Good Oil, Congratulations for exposing the man behind the cardboard cutout the Libs put up for Perth. Thought you might like these snaps I took of some of Mr Moore’s campaign propaganda that someone decided to post closer to his home, on Stirling Highway. lol Keep

The omission of the Liberal Candidate for the marginal seat of Brand, Donna Gordin, in an AEC advertisement today means she should be entitled to a fresh election if the ALP holds the seat. The apparent oversight on the day before the election in the overwhelmingly most heavily read news source in Western Australia opens

Darryl, Darryl, Darryl, what have you done? As things are heating up in the kitchen with Darryl Moore starting to learn that what you put on the net, stays on the net, he has given a fellow candidate a potential headache. Yesterday a birdie within my friends let slip that there were growing concerns that

Here’s a tip for new political players: If you’re caught out, it’s best to just cop it on the chin and try to move on. Trying to ‘spin’ out of it will only make things worse. Which brings us to Exclusive: Liberal for Perth-treat women mean, avoid ‘Ozzy’ tax and evict tenants ‘unconventionally’ – the story

It’s time to get the buckets and mops out and start cleaning the blood from the walls following our very unfriendly budget. Boy did we get it wrong! It seems the midnight spinners were wrong in thinking that putting our hands in 180,000 solar panel pockets and taking half the money back. It just goes

Some people may think Brendon Grylls is a young one-eyed pig-headed political leader with delusions of grandeur. Those folk may well be right, but not on the delusion front. A delusion of grandeur is by its nature something completely beyond ones reach and this young man still holds significant power. Brendon is one of the

There are times when you listen to people speak and think “I don’t think I would have said that out loud.” Eddy everywhere proved last week just how quickly off the cuff remarks can snowball out of control. But when people deliver pre-written speeches they really can’t say, “it came out wrong” or “I didn’t